Over the past few weeks, the number of different account of torture and abuse by the United States has been staggering. Here is a quick run-down of some of the most recent:
- The Pentagon warned intelligence specialists as recently as June not to report the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
- FBI agents witnessed US soldiers abusing detainees at Guantanamo Bay as early 2002 but the Pentagon did little to investigate the complaints.
- New photographs emerge showing U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees as early as May 2003.
- The U.S. government argues it has the right to use evidence gained by torture in deciding whether to detain people at Guantanamo Bay.
- U.S. generals in Iraq were warned more than a month before the Abu Ghraib scandal emerged that detainees were being beaten and abused in Iraq."
More on the new torture allegations here